Predicting the Future: The Science and Technology of Weather Forecasting

预测未来：天气预报科学与技术

• 批准号: 0206221
• 负责人: Cary Sneider
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Museum of Science
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-08-01 至 2007-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0206221&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Predicting; Future; Science; Technology; Weather

Building on an institution-wide strategic initiative to interpret the process of science for informal learners of all ages, the Museum of Science will work over four years to develop, evaluate and implement a project to communicate the processes of science through weather forecasting. The project is based on the idea that processes involved in short-term weather forecasting are basic to the process of science. MOS proposes to create a 1,800 square foot exhibit, programs for students and teachers, an interactive website, and one-minute television spots aimed at helping people understand weather forecasting. The project is grounded in MOS strategic commitment to engaging people in the activity of science and the use of new technologies. The major component of the project is an exhibition of weather in which visitors will learn how to forecast the weather over the next few hours using different levels of technology, including naked eye observations, data from weather maps, and real-time images from space satellites and ground radar stations. Ancillary programs include educational materials for over 100 WeatherNet schools in New England, an interactive website that will reach several hundred thousand users, and television spots on the process of weather forecasting to be aired on WBZ-TV Channel 4. Over the course of its life the project will engage several million children and adults in the process of science.

科学博物馆在为所有年龄段的非正式学习者解释科学过程的全机构战略倡议的基础上，将在四年内制定、评估和实施一个通过天气预报传播科学过程的项目。 该项目基于这样一种想法，即短期天气预报所涉及的过程是科学过程的基础。 MOS建议创建一个1,800平方英尺的展览，学生和教师的节目，一个互动网站，和一分钟的电视节目，旨在帮助人们了解天气预报。 该项目的基础是MOS的战略承诺，即让人们参与科学活动和使用新技术。 该项目的主要组成部分是一个天气展览，参观者将学习如何使用不同水平的技术预测未来几个小时的天气，包括肉眼观察，天气图数据，以及空间卫星和地面雷达站的实时图像。 辅助方案包括为新英格兰的100多所天气网学校提供教育材料，一个将达到几十万用户的互动网站，以及将在WBZ-TV第4频道播出的关于天气预报过程的电视节目。 在其生命周期中，该项目将使数百万儿童和成人参与科学进程。